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Fifty shares of the Kaiser-Frazer Corp., issued 4. January 1947. The company was founded on 25 July 1945, and in 1946 Kaiser-Frazer displayed prototypes of their two new cars at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. The Kaiser had an advanced front-wheel drive design, while the Frazer was an upscale, conventional rear-wheel drive car.
The Kaiser-Frazer Corporation was established in August 1945 as a joint venture between the Henry J. Kaiser Company and Graham-Paige Motors Corporation. Both Henry J. Kaiser, a California-based industrialist, and Joseph W. Frazer, CEO of Graham-Paige, wanted to get into the automobile business and pooled their resources and talents to do so. [1]
Over 50,000 orders were placed, but at that point, Joseph W. Frazer had left the company and K-F management decided to concentrate only on Kaiser production after building 10,214 of the 1951 Frazer when the supply of leftover 1950 bodies ran out. [2] A notable feature of the Frazer was that its four doors had push-button openers.
The new company was named Kaiser-Frazer. It used a surplus Ford Motor Company defense plant at Willow Run, [24] Michigan originally built for WWII aircraft production by Ford. Kaiser-Frazer (later Kaiser Motors) produced cars under the Kaiser and Frazer names until 1955, when it abandoned the U.S. market and moved production to Argentina.
Frazer commissioned Darrin to design a car that he planned to market through the Graham-Paige automotive firm. Once Kaiser-Frazer had been incorporated, Darrin's design became the first 1947 Frazer. [4] By 1946, Darrin had been contracted as a Kaiser-Frazer consultant. [4] [a 1] Darrin's relationship with the company and Kaiser was stormy.
The Henry J is an American automobile built by the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation and named after its chairman, Henry J. Kaiser. Production of six-cylinder models began in their Willow Run factory in Michigan in July 1950, and four-cylinder production started shortly after Labor Day, 1950.
Joseph Washington Frazer (March 4, 1892 – August 7, 1971) was a mid-20th century American automobile company executive.Over the course of his life Frazer was employed in half a dozen different companies as a mechanic, instructor, financier, salesman, president and board chairman.
Your Kaiser Dealer Presents Kaiser-Frazer "Adventures In Mystery" Starring Betty Furness in "Byline" is a brief series of live mysteries that aired from November 4 through December 9, 1951, on ABC television.